We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods. - Bertrand Russell

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. - Randy Pausch

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too. - Anne Fortier, Juliet

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated. - Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity. - Alysha Speer

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.--Shin'a'in saying - Mercedes Lackey, Owlflight

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. - Maya Angelou

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film. - Steven Wright

I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally. - Nicole McKay, I Had a Dream About You

All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart. - Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. - Albert Camus

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. - Carl Sagan

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'. - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam. - Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

Everyone enjoys being acknowledged and appreciated. Sometimes even the simplest act of gratitude can change someone's entire day. Take the time to recognize and value the people around you and appreciate those who make a difference in your lives. - Roy T. Bennett

Your level of neuroses will only find love in a made-for-TV movie. - Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer